After Gawker included him on a list of celebrities linked to Scientology, Russell Crowe clarified on Twitter that he is not a member of the controversial religion, and he told "The HuffPost Show" on Friday that he also avoided a Scientology sales pitch from the most famous Scientologist in the world, Tom Cruise.

As a friend of Nicole Kidman, I got to know Tom Cruise quite well, and I was in the video store, and there was a $2.50, on-sale special video on Scientology, so I watched it. It was kind of like out of a friendship thing, really. I brought it up with him and we had a short conversation about it, but...